Glossary of Educational Terms
504 Plan
Academic dishonesty clarification
Accelerated reading
Accommodations
Action projects
Activating prior knowledge
Active learning
Alternative assessments
Anchor paper
Assumption smashing
At-risk student
Attention Deficit Disorder
(ADD, ADHD)
Battery
Behaviorism
Benchmark
Bilingual education
Charter schools
Coaching
Cognitive science
Constructivism
Curve grading
Disability
Dyscalculia
Dyslexia
Dyspraxia
EDGAR
Education
Expected growth
Facilitative tools
Family Math
FERPA
Handicap
Holistic scoring
Individual Education Program
Intelligence Quotient
Interdisciplinary method
Inter-rater reliability
Learner-centered classroom
Least Restrictive Environment
Mainstreaming
Mastery
Median
Mixed ability
Norms
NSTA
OMB
OSEP
OSERS
Out-of-level testing
Portfolio assessment
Power test
Prior knowledge
Project 2061
Rubrics
SEA
Seamless technology
Standards
Streaming
Student assistance program
Systemic reform
Traditional assessment
Unknown objects
Validity
VSS
Wait time